This is a technical tutorial that takes you through the exact steps of retrieving states from the private variables of an Ethereum smart contract. All the techniques here can be applied to real life...

This visualization shows every token sale that successfully raised at least $100k from the beginning of 2014 through the end of last month, August 2018. The bar chart at the bottom of the graphic displays the total dollar amount raised in each month (details below)...

...This seemingly simple question lies at the heart of crypto valuations and is inseparable from the the decentralized future as envisioned by many crypto enthusiasts. Without an understanding of this, any money going into crypto is essentially blind money, regardless of how well the project team executes their stated goals.

...What does this have to do with Bitcoin? The prevailing narrative pushed onto newcomers and shared as gospel by “Bitcoin experts” like Samson Mow, Tone Vays, and Seinfeld Ammous, is that Bitcoin’s originally intended utility as a decentralized payments network is no longer relevant.

Since the wake of ICOs, people have expressed a lot of strong opinions about its implications on startup funding, at its height, ICO funding was considered the digital disruption of the venture capital industry, with the expectation that it’ll replace VC money anytime soon. Then after pre-sale rounds became more commonplace and some projects even skipped a public sale, the narrative became that institutional investors are taking over, leaving only bread crumbs for the rest of us...

...According to Bloomberg, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong remarked in an email how “Adam helped us build our exchange business into the largest U.S.-based crypto-trading venue, and was integral to growing Coinbase’s global presence and scaling our culture to multiple offices”